I know I've mentioned this elsewhere, but thought a topic dedicated to OpenPi might be appropriate.

So, what is OpenPi ?

"A wireless computer for inventors, makers and coders; to demo, prototype and sell physical products that run software. The EagleCAD files are Open Source (CC BY) which means those who want to modify the design can do easier much easier than ever before and use in whatever way they desire, either commercially or not."

GadgetUK wrote:Don't really see why the choice of tool used is important here, it's been used to do a job, the output of which is available for the community to make further use of if they choose to.

Because the free version of Eagle has restrictions. If you give someone an Eagle file then they must buy a copy of Eagle to work on it, or work within the restrictions of the free version. KiCAD has no restrictions, so you are not placing any burden on the person you give your KiCAD files to.

Wirelessthings who made the OpenPi seem to have been liquidated, and their server wirelessthings.net is down. This server hosted the open micros forum. Does anyone have any more info on support for OpenPi?
Tony

Hi Rattus
I've seen that announcement - doesn't help us, though. It seems that big business has screwed a successful company, and left us users in the lurch. This especially applies here, as the forum no longer works, so there's not much left except Raspberrypi.org. The openmicros.org domain hosted by wirelessthings.net is showing error 503 from Magento - service temporarily unavailable and has been like that for the last week.
Tony

yes all the wireless things are 503 [and ciseco]
I have no idea what was on the forums but it should of been obvious that that would vanish , users should of made use of other methods when they could communicate with each other to google groups or other...

I don't know if any of them had twitter so you can find out where they hang out now?

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Thanks Gadget
I've applied to join. I have just downloaded the github zip file - can link to that. Archive does appear to have the forum, but nothing in 2016, so more recent correspondence about the OpenPi is missing.
Tony

I've posted links to a few of the other files from github associated with WirelessThings on the new Google Group for OpenPi. I now realise that the web-archived WirelessThings doesnt include the forums because of the robot.txt file preventing it - its only the top level stuff shown. Unfortunately, I dont have email addresses of people who I communicated with on the OpenPi forum, so it seems to be impossible to communicate with them directly. If anyone here has any useful ideas about how to get more people to sign up on the OpenPi group, please post here.

I'm glad I found this post. I've got quite a few of their devices and when I found out they were closing I started to copy/paste stuff from their documentation site on openmicros. It's a good thing I did since they completely shut their site down. I didn't get everything, I tried to get everything I could but focused on what I needed most or had purchased, but I got a good chunk of it. After it closed I did find a different archive site that ignored the robot.txt and saved most of it, the catch is that it only has one version of it and it's from 2015.

It requires a password that takes a donation to get into but it had some stuff that I had missed to get before the site went down. I made sure to get the files from the ciseco and wirelessthings GitHub sites. When I get accepted into the openpi group I'll put up what I have saved from the site (except GitHub files), it's all in Microsoft word documents since that was the easiest and quickest at the time.